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Old-Style Batak Justice: A Taste for Blood
Posted on 02/05/2012
Stone Court The court was fashioned from stone, the chairs arranged in a circle, facing inward. The king presided over affairs from an elevated seat. His advisors and the village shaman sat...
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Inside a Traditional Batak House
Posted on 23/04/2012
Entrance gate to the village We entered the small, enclosed village through a narrow arch, wide enough for one buffalo – a defense measure, our petite guide informed us. We reached...
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Dragon Style
Posted on 13/03/2012
When I first heard about Komodo Dragons, I imagined them as small, adorable little reptile creatures, as though the name dragon were the inverse of a large man being nicknamed tiny. I...
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Struggling to Survive
Posted on 15/02/2012
As I peered out of the stern of the speedboat, I noticed in the distance fish soaring briefly out of the water, before plummeting rather clumsily back into the sea. The engines churning the...
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Gado Gado Masala
Posted on 06/02/2012
On June 3, 2011, in the streamline modern home of the Indian ambassador to Indonesia, Mr. M.K. Singh, Director of the Indian Cultural Center in Jakarta, shared with Indonesian Heritage...
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The Titanic Burj al Arab
Posted on 01/02/2012
What to make of this imposing structure, an icon of Dubai? The Burj al Arab, shaped like a full, white spinnaker sail, carrying passengers where?, I wanted to know. The hotel lures visitors...
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Christmas at the Airport
Posted on 25/01/2012
We arrived in Abu Dhabi at 6pm on Christmas Eve, after a relaxing though long flight in Singapore Airline's economy class. Eagerly, we approached the immigration counter, pleasantly...
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Losing Septi
Posted on 13/01/2012
Yesterday, the head official at the orphanage told us that Indonesia would rather the eight-month-old girl we are interested in adopting, who was abandoned by her mother at birth, remain a...
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At Home in Yogyakarta
Posted on 09/11/2011
Gamelan music plays from the speakers, a conversation hums in the background. A motorcycle putters past along the lane in front. Cars from the nearby road motor by. Frogs are chattering,...
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"Are You Gay?"
Posted on 11/10/2011
My mother’s question seemed totally random, completely unexpected. We had just gotten into the car and begun to drive home from the airport. I was in the middle bench of our...
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